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Partially ported to Plone v4.0.5

by admin — last modified Apr 17, 2011 04:39 AM
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Unfortunately during the port of this site from Plone v3.3 to Plone v4.0 the custom content type we used to represent the dedicated server entries refused to function. Rather than try too hard to fix this, we decided we ought to really bite the bullet and upgrade the entry database to something less hacky and more proper such that - god forbid - if we ever wanted to change the field design we simply could.

To that end we have made a significant start using a proper database design - the database currently has one test entry in it, and not everything is 100% working yet. But we hope to get all the entries restored by tomorrow and even currency conversion working again.

Unfortunately in the process of replacing the old data type, any non-core data attached to it has been lost i.e. all your comments. We do apologise for this - however, more than 80% of them were spam (you never saw these because we moderate all comments) but it was becoming a real pain in the ass to delete all these each day. This upgrade to Plone v4.0 fixes all those problems, not least that we now have OpenID support and a whole new commenting and discussion system which is vastly superior, not least that it supports some limited HTML and formatting now.

So do bear with us, and thanks for your patience. We'll be fully back soon!

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